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Elemental mercury poisoning caused by subcutaneous and intravenous injection: An unusual self-injury

Elemental mercury poisoning most commonly occurs through vapor inhalation as mercury is well absorbed through the lungs. Administering subcutaneous and intravenous elemental mercury is very uncommon but with only a few isolated case reports in the literature. We present an unusual case of elemental...

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Autores principales: Wale, Jaywant, Yadav, Pankaj K, Garg, Shairy
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2890926/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20607031
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-3026.63056